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Plant Controller

Saint Gobain • Oxford, NC 27565 • Posted 6 days ago

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The Plant Controller at Saint Gobain's Oxford manufacturing site will act as the co-pilot to the Plant Manager, assisting in driving the business forward through managing multiple priorities and projects. This role focuses on continuous improvement, eliminating non-valued activities, and providing strong customer service. Responsibilities include partnering with plant management to increase efficiency and profitability, managing the financial close, preparing analyses for business decisions, ensuring compliance with policies, and supporting financial training.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with plant management to increase plant efficiency and profitability.
  • Identify issues and proactively initiate analyses/solutions quickly and accurately.
  • Manage the timely completion of the month-end financial close.
  • Prepare analysis to understand the financial ramifications of current and proposed business actions.
  • Ensure compliance with SGC and EPG policies and procedures.
  • Prepare and coordinate the annual budget at the plant level.
  • Oversee and reconcile inventory cycle counts and annual physical inventory.
  • Assist in preparation of capital appropriations requests.
  • Project work based on company objectives & supporting/challenging Six Sigma activities.
  • Financial training for non-financial stakeholders.
  • Attendance in the Plant every day, minimum of Four (4) days per week.
  • Travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or Finance, CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred.
  • Minimum 5-7 years of progressive cost accounting and analysis experience.
  • Strong emphasis on knowledge of management accounting, cost and inventory accounting, and GAAP.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Strong communication & presentation skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Willingness to challenge the status quo and strive for continuous improvement.
  • Strong IT aptitude.

Preferred

  • CPA, CMA, or MBA.
  • SAP knowledge.

Full Job Description

Pourquoi a-t-on besoin de vous ?

The Plant Controller will be the co-pilot of the Plant Manager of our Oxford manufacturing site, assisting them in driving the business forward. This role requires intensity, agility and aptitude to successfully manage multiple simultaneous priorities and projects to financially support a matrix of diverse customers. Focusing on continuous improvement and elimination of non-valued activities is key, as well as strong sense of customer service.

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  • Partner with plant management to increase plant efficiency and profitability - identify issues and proactively initiate analyses / solutions quickly and accurately, keeping in mind the requirements from GAAP. Meet the needs of a complex, diverse, dynamic and fast paced organization that will pose a wide variety of challenges from a manufacturing level.
  • Manage the timely completion of the month-end financial close, demonstrating awareness of all elements of a plant's financial statements.
  • Prepare analysis to understand the financial ramifications of current and proposed business actions
  • Ensure compliance with SGC and EPG policies and procedures
  • Prepare and coordinate the annual budget at the plant level, oversee and reconcile inventory cycle counts and annual physical inventory and assist in preparation of capital appropriations requests
  • Project work based on company objectives & supporting / challenging Six Sigma activities with special focus on the financial analysis, and cost reduction projects
  • Financial training for non-financial stakeholders - ability to effectively develop people and transfer knowledge down into, and across, the financial and manufacturing organizations
  • Attendance in the Plant every day, minimum of Four (4) days per week
  • Travel up to 20%.
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At Saint-Gobain, our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values: Trust, Empowerment, & Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer, and sustainable home .

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  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or Finance, CPA, CMA, or MBA preferable or equivalent, complementary work experience
  • Minimum 5-7 years of progressive cost accounting and analysis experience with a major manufacturing organization. A strong emphasis should be put on knowledge of management accounting, cost and inventory accounting, and GAAP
  • Strong analytical skills are required to quickly grasp issues impacting the plant's financial results
  • Strong communication & presentation skills - capable of leading a process team and able to define clear vision, goals, and service standards, as well as working independently.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across plant and functional organizations
  • Want to challenge to the status quo - always striving for continuous improvement
  • Strong IT aptitude to deliver effective desktop reporting (paperless web-enabled environment), utilize business warehouse tools, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, SAP knowledge would be preferable
Mention légale

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

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